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Man who faked death to avoid child rape charges gets 85 years in prison
Jacob Blair Scott (photo credit: US Marshals Service) PASCAGOULA, Miss. - A military veteran who once faked his own death to try to avoid criminal charges has been convicted of sexually assaulting a girl and impregnating her when he was 40 and she was 14.A jury convicted Jacob Blair Scott of Moss Point, Mississippi, on Thursday. Jackson County Circuit Judge Kathy King Jackson sentenced him to 85 years in prison, saying it is essentially a life sentence.